Nature, Cell and Science are called to account and open access journals gain ground | Political Cleanup

"On the same day that it was reported that publisher Reed Elzevier seems to be losing its way, US biologist Randy Schekman, a Nobel prize-winner, said his lab would no longer send research papers to the top-tier journals, Nature, Cell and Science. Writing in the Guardian, he said, 'Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of bonus culture, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals.' Schekman is the editor of eLife, an open-access online journal set up by the Wellcome Trust. Articles submitted to the journal – a competitor to Nature, Cell and Science – are discussed by reviewers who are working scientists and accepted if all agree. The papers are free for anyone to read."